Jinni, the creator of the Entertainment Genome and semantic video discovery, is to team up with Ooyala, an innovator in video streaming and analytics, to deliver advanced video discovery technology for media companies, broadcasters and pay-TV operators everywhere. The technology will integrate Ooyala’s machine-learning big-data analytics systems with Jinni’s semantic discovery to deliver a powerful […]
HTTV has revealed that httvLink, its HbbTV open-middleware for connected TV STBs, has been selected by Eutelsat KabelKiosk to power its new wholesale HbbTV IPTV offering. This will be the first time that HbbTV will be deployed on IPTV networks. KabelKiosk is a provider of ready to use TV products and services in Europe for […]
New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco has maintained its leadership in four of the five main video infrastructure market segments, though in video client hardware and software (which includes set-top boxes, residential gateways and associated software/middleware) it slipped to third ranked position, being overtaken by Pace. In the other major change […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has expressed worries that over personalisation of media services will lead to a kind of Balkanisation with people never sampling new material and an end to ‘audience events.’ At a panel session about digital delivery at a meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors in Washington, Hastings said that personalisation is […]
Arris has annouced that its Merchandiser content marketing solution is fully integrated with content recommendation platforms: ThinkAnalytics, Digitalsmiths, and other leading recommenders. These key integrations give service providers and content programmers a one-stop solution for marketing their entire catalogue of content while utilising their recommendation platform of choice. According to the Fourth Annual Media Engagement […]
ThinkAnalytics has expanded the functionality of its ThinkCloud hosted solution. With ThinkCloud, operators and content providers can now deploy ThinkAnalytics’ Search and Recommendations Engine via a ‘pay as you grow’ business model, choosing perhaps to start out with basic recommendations and introduce more advanced recommendations down the road, when they are ready. The hosted solution […]
Simple.TV has selected Gracenote eyeQ to power the electronic programme guide for all digital basic cable and over-the-air programming for Simple.TV users in North America. With Gracenote eyeQ, Simple.TV premium subscribers will see what’s playing now and view listings with programme-related photos and imagery for upcoming shows from major broadcast networks, as well as select […]
DirecTV has partnered with two digital technology companies, LiveClips and i.TV. The LiveClips technology platform aggregates live, post-game or archived sports feeds to create, digitise and deliver discrete searchable video clips of every playfor delivery to linear broadcast and digital devices. LiveClips’ unique technology system delivers immediate personalised sports highlights for the DirecTV NFL Sunday […]
Entertainment navigation specialist TMS and semantic discovery engine for video Jinni have agreed a deal that will see Jinni use TMS’s OnEntertainment metadata to provide availability information for linear TV and OTT content on its new ‘My TV & Movie Guide’ iPad app and web service. As a result, once consumers find something they wish […]
UK open IPTV platform YouView has released the second in a series of updates designed to deliver better accessibility for blind and partially sighted customers as well as those with motor skill and cognitive impairment, to improve the journey for this audience to find their favourite TV. YouView has improved the zoom functionality which now […]